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quintuple

[ UK /kwˈɪntuːpə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈkwɪntupəɫ, ˌkwɪnˈtəpəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having five units or components
NOUN
  1. a set of five similar things considered as a unit
VERB
  1. increase fivefold
    The population of China quintupled

How To Use quintuple In A Sentence

  • Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
  • Would you enjoy being a quintuplet in the early 20th century when, as a reproductive anomaly, the simple fact of your existence made your family a freak show.
  • The premise of harried parents trying to raise quintuplets is interesting, but they do nothing with it. 108747998260188265 « Michael in Nashville
  • But that particular investment eventually allowed them to quintuple their production.
  • Since in vitro fertilization started, two decades ago, there has been an explosion of twins, triplets, quadruplets, even quintuplets.
  • Such multiple gestations are rare, with 6,742 sets of triplets, 506 sets of quadruplets, and 77 sets of quintuplets or higher order pregnancies in 2000.
  • Public transport patronage in Sydney and Melbourne more than quintupled between 1890 and 1930 but slumped in the 1930s.
  • The Alexander Doll Co. got the exclusive rights to Canada's identical Dionne quintuplets, who lived at Quintland, a tourist attraction, until the age of 9. Evolution of the American Doll
  • He is rushed into hospital and has a quintuple heart bypass. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ministers, who will formally announce the plan tomorrow, insist the quintuple jab is safe, and a positive development for parents because it replaces the whooping cough vaccine, which contained mercury.
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